Date: 24 May 2001 09:57:31 -0400 From: Chris Shenton <chris@shenton.org> To: sthaug@nethelp.no Cc: scsi@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Seeking recommendations for backup system Message-ID: <87vgmqc0j8.fsf@thanatos.shenton.org> In-Reply-To: sthaug@nethelp.no's message of "Thu, 24 May 2001 01:32:38 %2B0200" References: <13991.990660758@verdi.nethelp.no>
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sthaug@nethelp.no writes: > I'm seeking recommendation for a backup system (software) that can be > used with a decent sized tape library, probably LTO based, and FreeBSD > 4.3-STABLE. > > I'm sure we could roll our based on freely available tools (eg. Amanda) > - but by now I'm used to Tivoli ADSM/TSM, and *like* the convenience > ADSM/TSM offers. We need the ability to make backups (via Fast Ethernet) > primarily of FreeBSD servers, but also Solaris, Linux and HP-UX. Easy > restore is important. Been using Amanda to backup a few FreeBSD 3.x, 4.x and Slowaris boxes, no problems; my drive is a 4xDDS2 python. There's an ftp-ish client for specifying files/dirs to restore which works OK, though it always takes me a little while to get used to the options I have to specify. Had to do a major restore when I lost an entire disk -- was *very* happy Amanda had been doing its thing, automatically, every night. :-) I like the fact that Amanda stores in a slightly enhanced "dump" format, just prepending a label to each tape, and a directory entry to each file. If you really lose everything, you can do some "mt fsf" to get to the right tape file, then a "dd" to skip the header, then finally a "restore" to copy the data to disk. I believe Legato uses a proprietary tape format so if you're hosed you have to restore Legato before you can restore the tape. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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